In the last decade,a new neurological disease concept known as anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody(MOG-IgG)-associated disease(MOGAD)has emerged and is currently one of the most focused research areas in...In the last decade,a new neurological disease concept known as anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody(MOG-IgG)-associated disease(MOGAD)has emerged and is currently one of the most focused research areas in the field of neuroimmunology.MOG is a membrane protein mainly expressed on the surface of oligodendrocytes(Zhou et al.,2006).The exact pathogenic role of MOG-IgG in patients with MOGAD remains unclear;however,MOG-IgG has been suggested to cause tissue alterations and damage MOG-expressing cells(Zhou et al.,2006).The pathogenicity of MOG-IgG is further supported by the observation that only a few patients with acquired central nervous system(CNS)demyelinating syndromes exhibit both anti-aquaporin-4 antibody(AQP4-IgG)and MOG-IgG simultaneously,particularly with clear positivity levels of these antibodies as indicated by a cell-based assay result with a titer≥1:100(Sechi et al.,2021;Banwell et al.,2023).展开更多
文摘In the last decade,a new neurological disease concept known as anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody(MOG-IgG)-associated disease(MOGAD)has emerged and is currently one of the most focused research areas in the field of neuroimmunology.MOG is a membrane protein mainly expressed on the surface of oligodendrocytes(Zhou et al.,2006).The exact pathogenic role of MOG-IgG in patients with MOGAD remains unclear;however,MOG-IgG has been suggested to cause tissue alterations and damage MOG-expressing cells(Zhou et al.,2006).The pathogenicity of MOG-IgG is further supported by the observation that only a few patients with acquired central nervous system(CNS)demyelinating syndromes exhibit both anti-aquaporin-4 antibody(AQP4-IgG)and MOG-IgG simultaneously,particularly with clear positivity levels of these antibodies as indicated by a cell-based assay result with a titer≥1:100(Sechi et al.,2021;Banwell et al.,2023).
